A private school in London is opening the UK’s first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a “soulless, bleak future”.
The UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons.
David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September.
The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.
poor kids :/
I wonder if they’ll be able to sue for damages in the future? This is clearly a fucking idiotic idea that anyone with even the most basic understanding of AI would be able to tell you, so there’s no excuses like ‘Oh who could’ve forseen a generation of children raised on completely fake information could be so poorly led’ in 15 years time.
There is probably a forced arbitration clause and class action waver in the TOS…
You think that exists in the UK? I doubt. You definitely don’t get anything of that sort in the EU. A law is a law.
Imagine paying to send your child to private school and then they decide to pull this bullshit. Classic profit motivations.
Even Universities are riding the AI Dick, its so distressing.
Fortunately it’s a free market and I’d take them elsewhere.
Are there any measures in place to ensure the AI doesn’t just teach them hallucinated bullshit?
No.
Surely that would be the GCSE examination itself?
Yes, not using ai is the guardrail
Lmao does anyone actually think this will have effective educational outcomes??
It potentially could, even better if it’s still supervised by an actual teacher but each children would have their own AI, so teaching subjects could be personalized. This could mean slow students can still catch up and have bigger chance understanding the said subjects.
If the AI doesn’t hallucinate incorrect information, I totally agree.
One size fits all classroom learning leaves many students behind, and having a personal AI tutor could really help kids fill in the gaps in their understanding that would otherwise be overlooked.
AI hallucinations is still a very real factor that limits the usefulness of this tech right now though. I magine coming into class and your tutor you had yesterday is confidently telling you the opposite of the fact that it taught you yesterday.
It could. For example, I learn better by myself than in a classroom setting.
I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot allow you to go to the bathroom during classroom hours.
The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.
Suspicions immediately confirmed that the principal is a complete fucking dipshit who just wants to chase whatever trends sound futuristic. What an awful person for putting kids through this garbage.
How can we use this AI quantum blockchain to educate kids in a more efficient way?
Back in my day we just synergized them.
But this way offers a new paradigm in upward revenue stream dynamics.
What an awful person for putting kids through this garbage.
I wouldn’t blame the principal, I’d blame the parents. This is a private school, they’re making a conscientious choice to enroll their kid there.
I blame both, much in the same way that I’d blame a quack doctor and parents bringing their kids to the quack doctor.
Not to mention they’re probably paying double for it - once through their taxes for the public school the kids aren’t attending plus the tuition for the private school.
That’s stupid as hell. They think a bunch of kids are just going to sit there and listen to a robot? They don’t expect them to take advantage of every flaw in AI? Not only that but it removes the human interaction element of development. And to just top it off, AI is so basal right now that it will most likely teach students erroneous information anyways. Why are so many influential people with money complete morons?
It’s not that they’re morons, it’s that they don’t care shit about others or the future of others. And that’s why they are rich, intellect plays only a very little part in that equation.
So many things come to mind reading this, but the most important thought is: This will be how the bastards finally get rid of those pesky teachers and their gasp progressive teachings! /s I hope this fails hard, because a world without trading ideas to children is just prison for all.
“B is for Buy-n-Large, your very best friend.”
Straight up just taking a piss at both the children’s future, and the teacher’s professional career
And I thought social media was the worse things we did to kids…
I think climate change will top that list soon.
In USA it’s far far more important to stop TikTok than planetary destruction.
For current Americans, future Americans, current humans or future humans?
Now they are being forced to grow up in the UK…
Even worse London England, just the thought of being in England makes me want to stab myself with a pike.
Won’t work. I give this little publicity stunt about a week before they go back to human teachers
With reduced pay
Hey, AI is expensive. That money has to come from somewhere.
/s
Lmfao
The AI will be called GLaDOS
Are you still there?
*GLaiDOS
This is bad on three levels. Don’t use AI:
- to output info, decisions or advice where nobody will check its output. Will anyone actually check if the AI is accurate at identifying why the kids aren’t learning? (No; it’s a teacherless class.)
- use AI where its outcome might have a strong impact on human lives. Dunno about you guys, but teens education looks kind like a big deal. /s
- where nobody will take responsibility for it. “I did nothing, the AI did it, not my fault”. School environment is all about that blaming someone else, now something else.
In addition to that I dug some info on the school. By comparing this map with this one, it seems to me that the target students of the school are people from one of the poorest areas of London, the Tower Hamlets borough. “Yay”, using poor people as guinea pigs /s
It’s a private school though, so I’d be cautious about assuming they’re poor kids.
Edit: Yeah, it costs £27000!!!
Fair - my conclusion in this regard was incorrect then.
They’re still using children as guinea pigs though.
The experimental AI programme is more expensive than the traditional course? What are they thinking?
Marketing play to grab the money off of rich parents. There are still teachers, they are just proxied by “AI”. And there will also still be teachers monitoring. And there will still be teachers for certain topics.
So it’s teacherless, but with plenty of teachers.
Sound like fanless dyson fan.
One sucks, the other blows.
This is the self checkout of learning. Requires the same amount of employees with the same skills as before, but wait, now it’s also worse!
self checkout defo requires a lot less people than staffed checkouts.
